Chapter 2 Home-Base Services
Section 3 Body Care and Housekeeping Services
Article 15
Body care and housekeeping services include the followings:
1. Body care services: including assistance to use of toilet, bath, clothes change, oral cleaning, dining, taking medication, turning the body over, padding the back, simple passive motions for limb joints, going to bed and getting off from bed, accompanying with exercises, assistance to use of daily life assistive equipment, and other services.
2. Housekeeping services: including laundry and patching of clothes, cleaning of service recipient’s dwelling, documentation service, meal preparation service, accompanying to purchase or purchasing daily necessities, accompanying to seek medical service or contacting the medical care institution, and other services.
Article 16
Body care and housekeeping services are provided by the followings institutions:
1. Medical care institutions, nursing institutions, and medical treatment legal persons.
2. Welfare institutions for senior citizens and welfare institutions for physically and mentally disabled citizens.
3. Incorporated charitable associations, foundations, social welfare entities, and care service labor cooperatives.
4. Firms of licensed social workers.
Article 17
Body care and housekeeping service providers shall place caregivers and home-base service supervisors, and may place full-time or contract administrative personnel, physicians, nursing personnel, or other staff members according to their operation needs.
Article 18
Body care and housekeeping service providers shall handle the following matters:
1. Signing a service contract with the service recipient before providing service to clearly stipulate the rights and obligations of both parties.
2. Drafting a service plan.
3. Setting the working contents and supervision procedures.
4. Making the medical records and case history records.